16 December 2013
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The current global economic crisis is like any other war
Throughout the developed world, and in France in particular, economic crises are managed very differently. Wars are managed simply and effectively…
Throughout the developed world, and in France in particular, economic crises are managed very differently. Wars are managed simply and effectively…
The death of Nelson Mandela, though long-anticipated, provoked nonetheless an unprecedented worldwide outpouring of emotion…
Vint Cerf, the « Internet’s father », just caused a scandal by recalling, with hard-hitting words, the consequences of the dictatorship of transparency, given some of the current trends in the new social networking platforms. For him, the right to privacy may eventually prove to be a parenthesis in human history…
While we spend our time arguing about small matters in Europe, in Africa, far from the view of the television cameras and diplomats, one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II is dragging on…
Among the arguments that can attract voters’ attention toward an extremist party, (and in France especially toward the National Front) the most destructive, one that can capture the attention of the greatest number of good and decent people is the following: for decades everything has been tried, the right and the left. The left with floor crossers from the right…
As the Oslo Accords celebrate its 20th anniversary (which allowed the assumption that through direct negotiation between Palestinians and Israelis this could lead to the creation of a viable Palestinian State, and to the recognition of the State of Israel by the Arab states, within secure borders)…
There are a thousand excellent reasons not to go into Syria…
Peu de comparaisons sérieuses ont été faites entre la chute, semble-t-il réussie, des dictatures à l’Est de l’Europe et les innombrables échecs des printemps arabes. En principe, on aurait pu espérer les mêmes résultats…
FAISONS un rêve : imaginons qu’aujourd’hui nous ne soyons pas réunis dans la salle de l’Assemblée générale de l’Organisation des Nations unies, mais dans la salle d’une « Assemblée générale de l’Organisation des Associations unies », nouvelle institution internationale qui rassemblerait toutes nos organisations, traversant les frontières, les couleurs, les sexes, les races, les générations, toutes décidées à servir, sous toutes les formes, un seul but : le bien commun de l’humanité.
